Gloria Ochoa represents the Pasco homeowner who's under investigation. She says her client has a prescription.

"The medical marijuana act has a very specific manner in which a person can qualify to get a prescription, they have to be under the care of a Washington state licensed physician, for an ongoing chronic pain type of disease or a disability," said Gloria Ochoa, an attorney in Kennewick.

The law also says if you have a permit, you can not grow the plants in public view. So the only way police can find out about it, it's through a simple phone call from a neighbor.

Ochoa says most of the controversy surrounding medical marijuana is a matter of opinion.

"It goes back to personal opinion, some people again are going to have a bad perspective of it and they're not going to supportive and they're not going to think there's any validity to it," said Ochoa.

Still Ochoa says having more than a sixty day supply in Washington is a felony, that could include charges of manufacturing, possession, and intent to deliver.